Friday, March 1, 2013

Santa Muerte: All That Matters is Not Gold

There is a criticism that as a remover of barriers I may at times
remove too many barriers between the subject and the objective.

My response to this has been that whatever barriers you might see
before you are simply illusions to the objective that you wish to
achieve.

So for those who are not so good at “delayed gratification” know that
their expectations are not unreasonable. It is possible to have
everything you desire NOW. It is only your own creation of those
barriers that prevents instant gratification of all that you desire.
It is to some degree (to a large degree) a product of a linear mind.
You feel that you need to deal with things one at a time, so you place
before you / between you and the objective, barriers to manage the flow
of information your brain needs to deal with.

But your heart exists in every possibility as a multidimensional
organ. This is why sometimes you hear the suggestion that the heart can
handle what the head cannot. The heart can handle everything that is
thrown at it, it is the brain that needs to take information and events
in little pieces. By knowing this it is possible to allow the focus of
the mind to see what it needs to see and not be bothered by the fact
that the heart is taking in so much more of the whole. This is becoming
whole-hearted.

So how is the mind trained to stop focusing / requiring linear events?

The answer to this lies in the philosopher’s stone. It is a stone
that philosophers use. This is important because it is not a stone that
is used by someone who builds things, or by someone who manages money,
or by someone who wants to turn lead into gold! It is used by someone
who wishes to know how to think with their heart.

When you are given a philosopher’s stone, you might be disappointed
to learn that it is nothing more than a clear faceted gem. You are
encouraged to look through it, and see not the gem or the gem’s facets,
but the world around you. What do you see? Probably not very much, but
you become aware that there are multiple views of the same thing. It is
after all the reflection of the world that a diviner sees when scrying a
water vessel (bowl). And then when one removes the crystal it is
possible to continue to see every aspect of the world in this manner. In
the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy might have been given emerald glasses to view
the emerald city. But perhaps by donning those glasses she was in fact
able to see the path to defeat the evil witch. The two events are not
unrelated, but a critical part of the story often left out of the final
telling. [I also hear "Agartha", in that there is a key to how it is
revealed here.]

So how does this relate to the process of alchemy? Alchemy is
transmutation, which is changing “matter” from one form to another. So
what matters to you? And how much can you change what doesn’t matter
into what does matter? That is an interesting question and key to the
process of changing lead to gold. Is changing lead to gold really what
matters to you at this time? What matters more? By analyzing these
questions you might find that you have higher priorities. So the
philosopher’s stone (that which you hold now in your heart) tends to
transform matter into that which matters. If you pay attention to your
timeline you will see that this is true in every case. This can be a
difficult thing for the mind to deal with because what matters in the
heart and what matters in the mind are not always the same thing. When
they become the same, you have unlocked the secret of the philosopher’s
stone.